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    A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disc of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star...
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    HH 30 (category Circumstellar disks)
    V1213 Tauri) is an edge-on protoplanetary disk located about 146.4 parsecs from Earth that is surrounded by jets and a disk wind. HH-30 is located in the...
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    Nebular hypothesis (category Circumstellar disks)
    with the protoplanetary disk evolving into a planetary system over the next 10–100 million years. The protoplanetary disk is an accretion disk that feeds...
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    a protoplanet that forms by accretion of gaseous matter from the protoplanetary disk. Gas giant planets including Jupiter, Saturn, have primary atmospheres...
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    days). The generally accepted theory of planet formation from a protoplanetary disk predicts that such planets cannot form so close to their stars, as...
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    circumstellar disk around the star. This circumstellar disk may eventually mature into what is referred to as a protoplanetary disk: a disk of gas, dust...
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    HL Tauri (category Circumstellar disks)
    the rotational axis of the disk that is colliding with nearby interstellar dust and gas. Indications of a protoplanetary disk were first presented in 1975...
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    2MASS J04202144+2813491 (category Circumstellar disks)
    as Tau 042021) is an edge-on protoplanetary disk in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. The star is hidden behind the edge-on disk. Early estimates found that...
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    J16281370-2431391) is a protoplanetary disk in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The 2MASS source J16281370-2431391 was identified as resolved circumstellar disk with the...
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    in the center, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar...
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    spectral and luminosity classification system, and the presence of a protoplanetary disk, among others. Nearly all of the methods of determining age require...
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    A proplyd, short for ionized protoplanetary disk, is an externally illuminated photoevaporating protoplanetary disk around a young star. Nearly 180 proplyds...
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  • astronomy, a disk wind is a particle outflow observed around accretion disks, mainly near protoplanetary disks and active galactic nulei (AGN). The disk wind...
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    TW Hydrae (category Circumstellar disks)
    5-10 million years old. The star appears to be accreting from a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas, oriented face-on to Earth, which has been resolved...
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    protostar, and then a protoplanetary disk orbiting the object. As the collapse continues, an increasing amount of gas impacts the disk rather than the star...
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    HD 163296 (category Circumstellar disks)
    is a young Herbig Ae star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. The disk is a popular target to study disk composition, and several works suggested the...
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    sometimes employed when discussing the unrelated concept of protoplanetary disks. The name protoplanetary nebula is a consequence of the older term planetary...
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  • from hot stars acts on clouds of material such as molecular clouds, protoplanetary disks, or planetary atmospheres. One of the most obvious manifestations...
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  • circumstellar disks that have published resolved images. Many of them are protoplanetary disks or debris disks. Only some are transitional disks between protoplanetary...
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  • set by the age of the oldest solid material in the Solar System—protoplanetary disk dust particles—found as chondrules and calcium–aluminium-rich inclusions...
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    of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. Planets grow in this disk by the gradual accumulation of material driven by gravity...
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    PDS 70 (category Circumstellar disks)
    76 M☉ and is approximately 5.4 million years old. The star has a protoplanetary disk containing two nascent exoplanets, named PDS 70b and PDS 70c, which...
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    instability the interaction between the solids and the gas in the protoplanetary disk results in the growth of local concentrations, as new particles accumulate...
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  • 2015, her group discovered the first complex organic molecule in a protoplanetary disk. Karin Öberg was born in Nyköping, Sweden. At age 6, her family relocated...
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    KPNO-Tau 12 (category Circumstellar disks)
    dwarf or free-floating planetary-mass object that is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, actively accreting material from it. KPNO-Tau 12 was identified...
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    diameter, into planetesimals in a protoplanetary disk that is enhanced by aerodynamic drag from the gas present in the disk. This drag reduces the relative...
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    protoplanetary disk could also produce several gas giant protoplanets out to distances of up to 30 AU. Regions of slightly higher density in the disk...
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    IM Lupi (category Circumstellar disks)
    IM Lupi is a young stellar object with a surrounding protoplanetary disk. The young star is suspected to host a still forming protoplanet at a distance...
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    GW Orionis (category Circumstellar disks)
    Lambda Orionis star-forming region and has an extended circumtrinary protoplanetary disk. GW Orionis first came to the attention of astronomers when it was...
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    Elias 2-27 (category Circumstellar disks)
    Elias 2-27 (2MASS J16264502-2423077) is a YSO star with a protoplanetary disk around it, located in the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud (ρ Oph Cld, 5 Oph Cld...
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